I just brought up the educational because the first post was a spinoff from a school denying entry to their gifted pullout at a public school because they said hitting the top 99.9% on an iq test doesn't make you gifted unless you also have these common gifted characteristics.
Just for clarity sake, I suspect that the major reason our school system was refusing to take IQ scores for GT admission b/c dd is 2e and her achievement scores were wildly erratic. Constant high achievement is really what they are looking for coupled with teacher recommendation. 90th - 95th percentile consistently on tests like SRI Lexile and NCLB annual tests would be much more likely to get you ided than 99th today and 55th tomorrow. They do also use behavioral rating scales but that usually happens when the ability scores come in too low.
We did get them to take the IQ scores eventually but not for the "general intellectual ability" id that her sister has despite lower IQ scores. They said that they could only use them for a language arts GT id b/c there is no math ability, social studies ability, or science ability test on the WISC.
